Tips and Inspiration for Turning Your Brown Thumb Green

Bold, bright sunflowers towered twice the height of an inquisitive six-year-old boy, as he helped his Mom and Dad pick string bean plants in the family vegetable garden. Some 20 years later and many states away, he would start to cultivate his first small garden plot. Now, another twenty-some years later, birds of all types flock to his 4,000-square-foot garden oasis - replete with wispy ornamental grasses, vibrant summer perennials, and stoic, stately trees.

Have you dabbled in gardening ...